Dual Diagnosis Recovery Navigator
| Posting date: | 14 August 2025 |
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| Salary: | £35,763.00 to £43,466.00 per year |
| Additional salary information: | £35763.00 - £43466.00 a year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 28 August 2025 |
| Location: | London, N15 3TH |
| Company: | NHS Jobs |
| Job type: | Contract |
| Job reference: | C9455-25-0466 |
Summary
The post holder will be based in our Haringey service, and will be embedded into local mental health (acute/community) services, with co-location in Haringey substance misuse services. They will ensure that high quality services are delivered to service users with a dual diagnosis. The post holder will provide specialist liaison between mental health teams, substance misuse teams, and focus on Unmet Mental Health (MH) Needs, navigating to and from MH in Haringey. They will act as a specialist resource to address the broad spectrum of unmet MH need within those who are already within substance misuse treatment for drug issues in Haringey. The post will sit in the community teams and support and advise on cases where there is a MH need. The post will have strong links with community mental health services like IAPT and Mind in Haringey. The post holder will also work with BUBIC to understand the mental health needs of their clients to help better manage these through training and pathway development. The post holder will work with public health commissioned mental health services and support campaigns. Theywill also assist key workers whose clients mental health is under the care of a GP. The post holder will also provide training, advice and support in alignment with mental health and substance misuse teams in Haringey. This post will hold a small caseload whereby they will focus in delivering structured psychosocial interventions including harm reduction strategies to those that were previously unable to access services by removing current barriers into treatment. This will reduce the potential for increased substance use and mental health related crisis and long-term reliance on statutory services. The post holder will be responsible for undertaking substance misuse triage of service users, implementing and managing complex management plans in partnership with multidisciplinary teams in Haringey ensuring that effective and responsive plans are in place. For more details, please refer to the post job description.